Old Thread cleanup day. This search now only shows this thread and the grrr thread. Either google has fixed itself or FluxBB has. Anyway, marked as solved.

]]>https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=367412015-03-29T11:57:47Zhttps://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1515160#p1515160I don't know what you mean by "a simple scan of the entire page". Google does all its web crawling using the google bots.]]>https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=467302013-06-05T12:38:24Zhttps://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1283253#p1283253Thanks, SidK.

Can anybody confirm, whether google bots are used to index FluxBB, instead of a simple scan of the entire page?

Blocking the robots might be too much work. I once learned in an Ubuntu board, that one can block crawlers from indexing certain parts on a website by adding certain meta-tags (maybe in scheme.org). Signatures should just be outfitted with such tags. But I am no web developer. Could anyone have a look how this works, so we can assemble a patch and file a feature request over at FluxBB HQ?

Perhaps a cleaner solution is to not show signatures to any logged out users (which would include search engines).

Edit: reading the fluxbb code they have a global option to enable/disable signatures. But not whether one to flag if the signatures should only be shown the logged in users or for everyone.

Edit2: Solved it; FluxBB has a Guest user to which it assigns various settings (timezones, whether it sees signatures, language, themes etc). In the DB this is the user with ID=1, username=Guest.If you set show_sig to 0 for the Guest user, then logged out users, including search engines, don't see any signatures.

UPDATE users SET show_sig=0 WHERE id=1;

Ideally this toggle would be created as an admin panel option, manually fiddling DB values is a slippery slope.

Blocking the robots might be too much work. I once learned in an Ubuntu board, that one can block crawlers from indexing certain parts on a website by adding certain meta-tags (maybe in scheme.org). Signatures should just be outfitted with such tags. But I am no web developer. Could anyone have a look how this works, so we can assemble a patch and file a feature request over at FluxBB HQ?

We now have three and a half examples of failed filtering of the signature. Now I'd like to know, whether this is a setting unset in the Arch bbs or something to request over at the fluxbb bugtracker.

There are two ways to hide the signature: for all guests (search engines as well as unregistered users, already possible) or only search engines (this is AFAIK not possible yet)

]]>https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=602612013-06-04T08:10:07Zhttps://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1282355#p1282355Let's probe some more signatures and see, if it's just me and litemotiv.

I will more or less randomly choose signatures from the Arch bbs and run them through google.